Joel's Journey: a true farm day!!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

a true farm day!!

It was an all around true farm day Saturday!!! Nice weather, Spring showing itself through nature bursting forth, planting potatoes and then the last event of the day was our first 2012 goat babies being born!! I love our farm.... God's farm!!!

Micah and Andrew have done tons of work and projects outside with the tractor and cleaning up!! And I didn't even ask them to! They just set out to do it!! The next big farm project is a milking parlor for the dairy goats. I know Bethany will appreciate it sooo much!!!!!

Please continue to pray for Sue!!! I just can't tell you how she being the one going through this yet she is the one being such an encouragement to me and others!! When you experience that, it's just grace being poured from our great Fountain Head, Jesus!!! She is receiving grace but it's flowing on to others as well!!

Nineteen days Lord willing until Daniel returns from Australia! One happy momma here!!

Blessings!!

2 comments:

Unknown said...: I just have to comment that your "red" soil looks so odd to me as we are accustomed to black soil here. One of the things I love about blog world is not only reading about the every day lives of others, but also the amazing differences in God's creation around the world; March 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM
Sarah said...: That looks like one epic rope swing right there! :); March 18, 2012 at 7:43 PM

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.